getting-started.md

Getting started

Prerequisites

• Windows
• The .NET 10 SDK
• Visual Studio with .NET desktop development tools
• The VisualHFT OxyPlot fork cloned beside this repository

Clone the repositories

VisualHFT.csproj references the VisualHFT OxyPlot fork by a sibling path. Clone both repositories into the same parent directory.

git clone https://github.com/visualHFT/oxyplot.git
git clone https://github.com/visualHFT/VisualHFT.git

The resulting folders should look like this:

parent-folder/
├── oxyplot/
└── VisualHFT/

Build and run

1. Open VisualHFT/VisualHFT.sln in Visual Studio.
2. Build the solution.
3. Set VisualHFT as the startup project.
4. Press F5.
5. In the Dashboard, select an available provider and a normalised symbol such as BTC/USD.

Next steps

• Review the architecture overview.
• Build a market connector or study plugin.
• Use troubleshooting if the application does not build or a provider does not stream data.